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Online Attack

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An attack against an authentication protocol where the Attacker either assumes the role of a Claimant with a genuine Verifier or actively alters the authentication channel. The goal of the attack may be to gain authenticated access or learn authentication secrets.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Online Attacks
possessive
Online Attack's
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Online Attacks'